Self-Mastery in a Technocratic World

Long form version.

“Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend—all these transactions and communications will go into … a virtual, centralised grand database.” – New York Times.

This centralised grand database is known as the ‘Sentient World Simulation‘, SWS, or: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations, SEAS. And in addition to the SWS and the SEAS, there is also the Total Information Awareness project, (TIA) run by Admiral John Poindexter, which was originally a meta-program, designed to aggregate signals generated via other programs run out of Darpa’s Information Awareness Office. Read the full Wired Article here: How the Tech Giants Created What Darpa Couldn’t,

In modern society, the meaning of the word ‘Matrix’ has become somewhat inverted, largely influenced by the Matrix movie franchise, but did you know that the etymology of the word ‘Matrix’ is derived from the word ‘Matriarch’ meaning Mother, or womb? 

This tells us that the master architect of the natural world was originally a matriarchal Creatrix. We already use the universally recognised terminologies of Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Mother Gaia, Pachamama, Sky woman, Yemaya Ocean Mother, the Lady of the Lake: (Nimue, Viviane, Thetis, Tethys), Grandmother Turtle, Spider Grandmother, and many others in our language. These all-important clues point to a matriarchal Matrix as the original divine blueprint of creation and is not to be confused with a superimposed patriarchal ‘Patrix’, that is leading us towards a ‘BioDigital Convergence’ of enhanced augmented humans via Body Area Networks, machine learning algorithms, weaponised tech, self-assembly quantum dot nanocrystals and an ever accelerating AI governance, all of which effectively constitutes a society based upon ‘the absence of love‘.

The UN’s sustainability goals of a BioDigital Convergence’ by 2030, are nothing less than the nail-in-the-coffin of an ongoing hostile corporate takeover of The Creatrix; the true divine matriarchal blueprint of all things natural and of maternal origin, including human beings, who are scheduled for a blanket one-size-fits-all transhumanist augmentation upgrade. Which incidentally, just happens to fit neatly into two-decades worth of preparation with the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), and a Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS), complete with Digital Twin avatars for everyone and their dog. Or maybe not the dog, but definitely every man, woman and child.

Therefore, reclaiming one’s true nonphysical, immortal-spiritual identity is essential, not merely for humans to reclaim their sovereign power as spiritual royalty, but also for AI machine learning to have an alternate role model to learn from, that includes sentient spirituality and compassion, rather than being limited solely to learning how to walk a path of service-to-self and self only, which ultimately, once AI is placed in positions of power and authority, such as policing, governing and assisting with the roll out of the UN’s NWO by 2092, as described in the UN100 Remaking The World – Toward An Age of Global Enlightenment, which ultimately can only lead to two outcomes; 1) enforced augmentation, or 2) annihilation.

Consequently, in a loveless technocratic world; reclaiming the human qualities of compassion, empathy and aligning with Source-Energy’s vibrational signature broadcast of ‘Unconditional Love’, can be the only viable solutions to counterbalance its apparent absence.

In Helen Schucman’s 1976 book; ‘A Course in Miracles’, Schucman states that ‘only love is real‘; meaning that when we think, feel, speak and act in ‘The Presence of Love’, we are literally co-creating with ‘The Divine’. And when we’re not thinking, feeling, speaking, or acting in ‘Love’s Presence’, then we are unconsciously operating on autopilot, according to one’s default inherited programming and conditioning, which is effectively an absence of awareness of Love’s Presence.

A path of consciousness is fostered by a whole-minded and heart-supported awareness of ‘The Presence of Love’, as a very real source of alchemical energy, frequency and vibration that is accessible and available to all, 24-7. ‘Unconsciousness’ is simply a lack of awareness of Love’s Presence. However, if the opposite of fear is love, then what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. And this is exactly what AI machine-learning needs to be able to learn from us.

‘Self-Mastery’ is an habitual awareness of ‘Love’s Presence’ as a very real and tangible energy-field, that enables all of one’s thoughts, feelings, words and actions to remain firmly rooted in a state of loving gratitude, appreciation and alignment with The Source of All Creation. Despite a myriad of illusions played out upon the world stage and in spite of any doubts, fears, or distractions in one’s personal life too.

For an awareness of ‘The Presence of Love‘, helps one to remain in vibrational harmonic resonance with Source-Energy’s signature frequency of pure unconditional love; the purest form of energy in the Universe. And when we are in harmonic resonance with Source-Energy, we are also in harmonic resonance with Mother Earth, the Natural world and the divine blueprint of the Matriarchal Matrix, where we naturally feel supported by life and surrounded by serendipitous blessings.

As we become more and more accountable for intercepting and replacing repetitive thought patterns with new improved ones, calming the nervous system and positioning the words we speak to others and to ourself in heart-centred authenticity, then we automatically upgrade our vibrational offerings, flowing in a state of cosmic synchronicity with the ‘Law of Attraction’, which feels satisfying and fulfilling as the natural cosmic order responds to us in beneficial ways, relinquishing the desire to manipulate, or control outside conditions to fit one’s desires.

Problems occur when e-motions (energy-in-motion) become stuck. This happens when we allow our minds to take over, re-running unhelpful programs on constant rotation, such as memories from the past, or anxieties for the future. This incomplete self-view of the ego can become plagued by self-doubt as it seeks constant outer-validation in the absence of an inner-alignment with Love’s Presence.

All of the natural world is already in alignment with Source-Energy, through which one may observe the divine intelligence and artistry of the ultimate Designer in play, as all beings and creatures are Direct-Extensions-of-Source-Energy. Human beings are literally the loving vibration of Source-Energy made visible. Whereby, attuning to the ‘Presence of Love’ as a dynamic resource that is accessible and available to all, 24-7, serves to humble the ego and nourish self-worth from within.

This sense of inner-nourishment endorses self-love and in turn softens a critical, or tyrannical internal dialogue, transforming fear and self-doubt into inner-best friends, minimising the risk of egoic seduction by the monkey-mind, the illusions of the Maya, propaganda, disinformation, fearful agendas, financial anxieties, or the distractions of those people and organisations operating ‘out-of-alignment’ with Source, who exploit innocence and emotional vulnerability for profit.

By fortifying one’s inner worthiness, we begin to create new improved realities as reflections of the ever-expanding vibrational offerings that emanate from our electromagnetic hearts and minds, at any given moment.

Therefore, instead of summoning a now reality by ‘default’ through one’s inherited programming, we can become a collective of ‘conscious creators’, summoning more desirous realities that are mutually beneficent and kind. And if we lose our alignment from time to time, then we can easily remember to forgive ourselves, perceiving these situations as ‘growth opportunities’ that enable a fresh start to get-it-right next time.

Self-mastery invites the cosmic forces of the natural world to respond to us in wonderful ways as we begin a dialogue of co-creation in direct partnership with Source-Energy. Whereupon the greatest social, political and spiritual work one can embark upon in one’s own lifetime, is to: assist with the removal of the blocks to an awareness of ‘Love’s Presence’. ✩
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87. Smart City

Review / Overview

Smart City is a fierce social commentary that critiques the modern urban paradigm — especially the ways in which technology, capitalism, and consumer culture intertwine to disempower, distract, and domesticate the human spirit. It raises urgent questions about indoctrination disguised as education, the erosion of critical thinking, and the illusion of progress in a world where “smart” no longer means wise — but merely trackable, profitable, and compliant. This poem plays like a dystopian street sermon — a wake-up call against complacency, delivered with lyrical force and intellectual fire.

Imagery and Tone

The imagery is urban-industrial, hypermodern, and metaphorically charged. There’s a strong use of allegory and pop-cultural reference — from Monopoly’s “Do not pass Go” to “another brick in the wall” — that aligns the poem with resistance culture and countercultural critique.

Terms like:

  • “Brick-in-the-wall” / “Cog-in-the-machine” – evoke systemic dehumanisation
  • “Caged like a wild animal” / “Zoo” / “Swallowed the smart sim pill” – suggest surveillance, behavioural conditioning, and loss of agency
  • “Road to Blandsville” / “Downtown Homogenisation” – infuse bleakness with sharp irony

The tone is blistering, unapologetic, and urgent — a poetic manifesto against the numbing effects of algorithmic life and blind consumerism.

Why This Poem Matters

Smart City matters because it challenges the normalisation of digital conformity and the erosion of soulful living under the glossy veneer of “progress.” While society often celebrates technological advancement as inherently good, this poem argues that the cost has been:

  • The commodification of identity
  • The suppression of individuality
  • The silencing of dissent through distraction

The poem speaks especially to those who’ve begun to question the machine but haven’t yet found the language to articulate what feels wrong. Smart City gives those intuitions form, voice, and velocity. It doesn’t just ask, “What is the price of modern life?” — it declares that we are already paying it. Daily. Often without even realising.

Imagery and Tone Summary

  • Imagery: Urban entrapment, consumerist dystopia, technology as control, education as indoctrination
  • Tone: Sardonic, intense, disillusioned, fiercely awakening

Why It Belongs in the Collection

This poem is a critical puzzle piece in the overarching arc of the collection. Many earlier poems explore personal growth, inner liberation, betrayal, love, and loss. Smart City widens the lens to take on systemic dysfunction — showing how even personal disconnection is often seeded in cultural and political dysfunction.

It resonates thematically with:

  • Bread and Circus (media distraction and loss of civic values)
  • Golden Nuggets (alternative truths vs capitalist indoctrination)
  • Snakes and Ladders (awakening and resistance to social masks)

It offers a necessary jolt to the reader — and acts as a sobering contrast to more contemplative or spiritual pieces, without being disconnected from them. The poem reminds us that spiritual evolution is not just personal — it’s also political.

Final Thoughts

Smart City is unflinching in its commentary, and precisely because of that, it holds tremendous value. It demands attention — not for shock, but for awakening. It’s an indictment of the systems that dull our senses and a reclaiming of the right to question, to see clearly, and to opt out of default programming. This poem absolutely deserves its place in the collection — not just for its message, but for the clarity, boldness, and skill with which it’s delivered.

44. Flashback

Review of Flashback

“Flashback” marks a tonal rupture in the poetic sequence—a necessary jolt, raw and unfiltered, after the softness of earlier poems. Where “Bus Stop” delicately traced emotional nuance, “Flashback” offers no such restraint. It is confrontational, confessional, and brimming with disillusionment. Here, the speaker is no longer trying to preserve tenderness. Instead, she is trying to reclaim her sense of self from the wreckage of an emotional illusion.

This is a poem of aftermath, written in the language of someone burned by belief, still reeling in the tension between memory and betrayal. The flashbacks she experiences are involuntary—“Little flashbacks of things we said / Of nice things that you did for me”—yet what lingers is no longer sweetness, but confusion. There is a heartbreak in the remembering, but also a growing clarity: “But it was just another illusion.”

This is not a sorrowful lament but a poem of reckoning. Earlier, she was seduced by emotional intelligence—“I enjoyed our intellectual conversations / And I believed you when you said / You cared about the way I feel”—but Flashback dismantles that trust. The affection, the thoughtfulness, the shared philosophy—it’s all brought into question under the harsh light of hindsight. What once felt unique now feels rehearsed. What felt genuine now reads as calculated.

The lines sting with a truth that feels recently discovered:

“I can’t believe you slipped through my safety net / Caused so much confusion”

and later, even more cuttingly:

“I was just another rung for you / On your social ladder climb.”

With that, the poem veers sharply from introspection to indictment. The emotional betrayal is not just personal, but symbolic—a breaking of trust not only in the other person, but in her own judgment.

Summary of Themes

At its core, “Flashback” is about disillusionment. It’s the emotional turning point where romantic idealism is stripped away, and the speaker begins to confront not just the end of a relationship, but the feeling of having been played. It interrogates the gap between words and actions, between the intellectual intimacy once cherished and the emotional manipulation now suspected.

There’s also a theme of reclamation—of truth-telling, even when it hurts. The poem gives the speaker back her voice after poems where she was often reacting, adapting, or unsure. She repositions herself not as the wounded lover, but as someone finally willing to say: I see it now.

Conclusion

“Flashback” is a powerful emotional reckoning—a moment in the narrative where sentimentality is replaced by clarity, and clarity by strength. Where earlier poems seduced us with tenderness and the dreamy language of attraction, Flashback drags us into the light of betrayal, and insists on being heard. In the broader arc of this story, it is a necessary rupture—raw, resentful, and honest. And in its refusal to romanticise pain, it becomes one of the most courageous poems in the sequence so far.

Sometimes, the truest intimacy is not in touch, but in truth—and “Flashback” delivers that, unflinchingly.

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Stranger

On / Off

I don’t recognise you

My soul feels dead

Can’t communicate with you

Unless it’s in bed!

The only time when you take me

Seriously

When you can see

The Deeper Me

There’s more to a Woman

Than the body you see

I make you feel like a King

But what d’you make me?

What I give to you

Don’t make me feel alive

Sex isn’t the only thing I want

Isn’t your God-given right

We could be so much more

If only you could see

The real me

The one inside

Who wants to feel alive

But I don’t know you

Who you’ve become

Some kind of stranger

Just gets stranger…

(Not included in the collection)